Suunto Race and openwater swimming
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According to DCR, the Suunto Race is very bad for registering openwater swims. Do you agree?
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@Yoeri-Nijs Not really. I’ve done quite some OW swims with the race. For me it’s quite accurate.
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@Yoeri-Nijs I have very good results für open water swimming (I am regularly doing triathlons) with the current Suuntos.
If you are swimming a decent freestyle that involves lifting the arm above the surface every stroke, it will be very good. -
Sorry if I am hijacking the thread, but do optical HR watch sensors work with swimming, or a waterproof belt like Suunto’s are required for HR logging?
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@mlakis said in Suunto Race and openwater swimming:
Sorry if I am hijacking the thread, but do optical HR watch sensors work with swimming, or a waterproof belt like Suunto’s are required for HR logging?
the sensor in the watch is working during swimming. Data quality may vary from user to user.
When swimming with a wetsuit, I am always using the belt (and the Suunto belt caches the HR data to sync later when out of the water). -
The Bluetooth HR data catch up has mostly worked reliably in the simple openwater mode for me as well, but I have hit one strange bug in triathlon mode, already reported here: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/9484/hr-data-shifted-in-triathlon-mode